Variously referred to as the Magic Digitizer, Magic Video Digitizer,
or New Image Magic, this hardware/software package captured 1-bit
monochrome stills from a connected video camera or player. The user
could adjust brightness, contrast, and patterns to extract more detail
from the grayscale input.

In a 1985 comparison, Macworld found the competing [Koala
MacVision][1] to provide the fastest, easiest, and smoothest-looking
digitization of video frames, although the Magic software offered the
most control over pattern selection.

A subsequent software upgrade, marketed as LaserMagic and sold
separately from the base product, allowed frames to be digitized at
300 dpi and saved as grayscale PostScript files.

Download #1: contains a folder copy of Magic version 2.0.
Download #2: contains a folder copy of ShowImage, a companion utility
that allows you to convert some image files (TIFF was tested) and
convert them to PostScript, PageMaker, MacPaint or TIFF format. It
allows printing to PostScript printers with adjustments for brightness
and contrast as well as printing copies in up to an 8x8 grid.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Tested under System 6.0.8. Will not work under System 7.

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macvision

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